Show Tune Arrangements, 1910-1914

Bright Eyes (1910)

Syracuse, New York

Edith Chapman and Harry Anthony sing "For You, Bright Eyes"

Jumping Jupiter (1910)

Opening measures of Jumping Jupiter

Witmark catalog listing

Grace LeBoy's To the Strains of the Wedding March must have remained popular for some time, perhaps due in part to Billy Murray's recording. O'Hare and Levy didn't arrange it for band and orchestra until nearly two years after O'Hare had included it in the Jumping Jupiter Selection.

Although O'Hare arranged the orchestra "selection" and individual pieces below in 1910, his band selection appeared in 1911.

Rida Johnson Young and Ernest Ball's "Mother Machree," another Olcott hit, was introduced in Barry of Ballymore and published as sheet music for piano and voice, in several voices as part of Wiitmark's Black and White series, and for mandolin and hotel orchestra, the latter by an unnamed arranger. However, no 1910 or 1911 orchestrations have been found.

The song was revived in later Olcott shows, including The Isle o' Dreams (1912). A portion of O'Hare's later dance orchestration combining "Mother Machree" with a lasting hit song from that show appears later on this page.

The Girl of My Dreams (1910-1911)

As a lead-in to "Doctor Tinkle Tinker," the show's hit song, the young Quaker leading lady wonders if the man who repaired her toys when she was a girl can also repair her broken heart.